Quotes About City

A city is a kind of pattern-amplifying machine: its neighborhoods are a way of measuring and expressing the repeated behavior of larger collectivities—capturing information about group behavior, and sharing that information with the group.

Jane Jacobs observed in The Death and Life of Great American Cities: "The larger a city, the greater the variety of its manufacturing, and also the greater both the number and the proportion of its small manufacturers.

This is a book about the space of innovation. Some environments squelch new ideas; some environments seem to breed them effortlessly. The city and the Web have been such engines of innovation because, for complicated historical reasons, they are both environments that are powerfully suited for the creation, diffusion, and adoption of good ideas.

A city that was ten times larger than its neighbor wasn't ten times more innovative; it was seventeen times more innovative.

I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone's away. There's something very sensuous about it - overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands.

I can't stop being in parades. I just love dancing on floats that move really slowly on the city streets in the early morning.

I love the dignity in the name Philadelphia, but at heart, we're Philly.

I love street, adore street. Life is about mixing things and to be divine in the streets. Voila!

I LOVE DOWNTOWN LA and I relish any opportunity to spend time there.

You feel sadness for time passing. New York is a city that keeps reinventing itself, and I love it so much.

I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold.

I live in L.A., so layers are essential to my wardrobe. I like slim silhouettes, typically, and I love good tailoring.

Blessed the one who, exalted by love, has become a city founded upon a mountain, from which the enemy, when he saw it, withdrew in fear, trembling at its security in the Lord.

If I have an hour in a city, I go to vintage stores first because it's so much cooler to find a piece that is unique. I love the thought of some girl having worn it before and living her life in it.

Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest.

How did you fall in love with New Orleans? At once, madly. Looking back, sometimes I think it was predestined.

Paris, though it's a very famous city, it's very small, so people always tell themselves, "We're gonna love each other in Paris."

If I had a gun, I'd shoot a hole into the sun and love would burn this city down for you.

I love New York. But the energy is so intense

Boston was a great town to go to college in. Maybe that's why there's so many colleges there. I love the town, and I loved Boston University.

I like Los Angeles. So many artistic people, and I just love the weather.

People search for love as if it were a city lost beneath the desert dunes, where pleasure is the law, the streets are lined with brocade cushions, and the sun never sets.

I love going to the river not only to enjoy nature, but to think about the Los Angeles River's place in our city's history and to envision its great place in our future.

To take possession of a city of which you are not a native you must first fall in love there.